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Posted by tachyon on Mar-03-2005 08:28:

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Originally posted by Nyquist_Theorem
hot girls with easily corrupted minds = yay!

throw some in this direction, please, corruption is my middle name!

Posted by Antistatic on Mar-03-2005 08:32:

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Originally posted by Ves
I don't want o-week to end....

Why do you have a whole week? We only get 1 day.

Posted by Ves on Mar-03-2005 09:13:

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Originally posted by Antistatic
Why do you have a whole week? We only get 1 day.

nah only three days. But I prefer to be wandering the uni instead of actually starting my degree....

Posted by OLi_A on Mar-03-2005 12:26:

ever since i got back from nz, ive been waiting for uni to start. i get back and all is good bar the elective i chose. i was hoping to cover heart and lung disease, but all we get to do is std's, and thats just a waste of time, but its good to be back

SID! are you doin your postgrad at bankstown?

Posted by tachyon on Mar-03-2005 14:16:

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Originally posted by Renegade
Checking in from another exciting ISYS2048 tutorial. Java can suck my balls.

i didnt know you doing postgrad, cool!

Posted by Renegade on Mar-03-2005 22:57:

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Originally posted by tachyon
i didnt know you doing postgrad, cool!

Nah, still undergrad dude...

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-03-2005 23:12:

being bored at uni is infinitely better than being bored at work. make the most out of it. fvck it, do post grad. get lecturing. get tenure. that way you never have to get a real job, you get months of holiday a year, and youre surrounded by first year honeys for the rest of your life

fuck i hate working

Posted by Nyquist_Theorem on Mar-03-2005 23:34:

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
being bored at uni is infinitely better than being bored at work. make the most out of it. fvck it, do post grad. get lecturing. get tenure. that way you never have to get a real job, you get months of holiday a year, and youre surrounded by first year honeys for the rest of your life

fuck i hate working

if only it were so easy. tenure at a decent school is very, very difficult to get, and it usually means 10+ years of getting paid peanuts and working your arse off, publishing, teaching, publishing, marking, publishing, filling out research grant applications, publishing, etc.

4 out of 5 recent phd grads in this country are working in areas that have nothing to do with their area of expertise, just to pay the bills. the australian higher education system is headed for serious trouble based on the lack of funding availale to hire decent academics.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-03-2005 23:48:

HEHE, i didnt mean to imply it was easy

however ive never believed research & publishing (at least within the confines of my chosen disciplines) was particularly difficult. not when compared to, say, the 9-5 office grind. sitting down and doing that kind of work, on your own schedule, is infinitely better than most other situations, imo.

sadly, my hons year didnt go well enough for me to get postgrad scholarships. and now, here i am. grinding away. fuck.

Posted by Nyquist_Theorem on Mar-03-2005 23:56:

oh for sure - the lifestyle's good... its just that without tenure the stability is sooo lacking. ive had a few mates get booted/squeezed out not because of their professional capacity but because they rubbed the wrong person the wrong way, and its quite discouraging.

but esp when you factor in the other perks of the job, yeah being an academic is fairly appealing compared to working one's arse off in the private sector. if its not just about money and instead about the whole package - lifestyle, recognition, intellectual stimulation, intellectual freedom, etc, then yeah, definitely a good direction to go in. you could still do a masters by research or a phd part time while working if you're keen.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-04-2005 01:15:

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Originally posted by Nyquist_Theorem
you could still do a masters by research or a phd part time while working if you're keen.

yeah, but im not the angry lil socialist i once was my motivation is lacking!

Posted by -=M=- on Mar-04-2005 03:57:

yes however pkc if you're bored at work with access to tranceaddict, then you can't complain for being paid to post

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Mar-04-2005 04:00:

hehe, true. but all jobs have perks. net access doesnt make me hate working any less

Posted by gumble on Mar-04-2005 06:20:

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Originally posted by Ves
nah only three days. But I prefer to be wandering the uni instead of actually starting my degree....

we got a whole week

uni of adelaide rocks

and seriously, the intake of fresh skirt this year is phenomenal!!! so so glad im doing a 1st year subject (that i sorta forgot that I had to do ehehe)

oh and combined 2nd / 3rd year courses rock when ure 3rd year.

only 3 more years to go for my uni days

Posted by Antistatic on Mar-04-2005 07:43:

No shit gumble, the talent here is phenomenal.

I'm going to the law welcome show tonight (and I don't do a single law unit) bring that shit on!

Posted by -=M=- on Mar-04-2005 14:41:

half of swinburne hawthorn campus dresses like the room thursday night crew, its funny to see the new 1st year girls dressing themselves up and putting on enough makeup to sink a towboat

Posted by vitamin v on Mar-05-2005 01:56:

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Originally posted by gumble
and seriously, the intake of fresh skirt this year is phenomenal!!! so so glad im doing a 1st year subject (that i sorta forgot that I had to do ehehe)

hehe... me too! i forgot that i had to complete 1st year stats so im doing it now in my third year... *groan*

Yes, some of 1st years are rather good looking this year, pity they are all six years younger than me

*where has my youth gone*?

Posted by -=M=- on Mar-05-2005 03:19:

vi you can pull off the "experienced" look hehehe :P

Posted by Bitz on Mar-06-2005 07:45:

general question to all:

are the first year's at your uni as keen as they are at melbourne?

i'm doing first year biology and every single lecture it's packed with first years carrying all their text and workbooks. just watching them write every single word in a flurry down amazes me...well that and like M said, way too much make up for 8 am on friday mornings.

Posted by vitamin v on Mar-07-2005 01:18:

OMG. I think my uni has no heating today. When you breathe in class your breath comes out as a cloud mist its f***cking freezing!!

Posted by TCB on Mar-08-2005 12:45:

yeah im pretty sure the 1'st year students are just as keen here in adelaide. doing a first year subject as well this semester and i must agree with gumble on the influx of fresh skirt. god damn.

Posted by -=M=- on Mar-08-2005 21:38:

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Originally posted by vitamin v
OMG. I think my uni has no heating today. When you breathe in class your breath comes out as a cloud mist its f***cking freezing!!

the woment here not wearing jackets? @ @

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